Sale lived up to expectation ….some very well bred stock on offer turned out exceptionally well ..heaps of records ,loads of milk and solids to boot ….top price of day was 4400 for the pick of the 2 radney heifers below and they were crackers
Protein good pity the bf is low. Struggling to breed it in here as well
Dams and g damn were pretty respectable all round tho
Ah yeah, longevity is good to see back along as well
Butterfat was my downfall too but starting to come up now ….have a few radney stock in my herd and bar 1 there very impressive …..good commercial heifers but good on type and solids to boot …..something from Odetta family still escapes me and I really want one …followed that lot a long way …close but no cigar unfourtnately
Giving the pick seemed fair silly to me. Did they take home the one left behind. Alot of those heifers today were massive. Weighing the bones of 500kg. Fine stock alright and very well done. The big money was being paid in the other ring at the simmental reduction sale.
Alot of lads complaining that their butterfat is higher in milk test results than in milk recording results.
In all fairness they need to be hitting that weight they'll be 650kgs plus as mature cows, mwl is a bull used here that bred very fragile cows but lots of milk, peresus great cows but with mwl in the breeding again they'd lack strength
Nope …..butterfat always lower in milk rec v coop results
Was nothing fragile about practically all the radney stock today ….power and strength in abundance
My own experience
https://www.stgen.com/sire-directory/dairy-bull-usa.aspx?code=HO840003008328791&language=english&title=s-s-i-shamrock-mystic-et
in fairness a bit of ebi chasing was going on using shamrock, alot better options out their on a Perseus then going Shamrock
Don’t have pictures but these 2 had serious power and strength …good big deep wide chest width …..the odeta family is exceptional
That's what I said. 😉
Savage herd wouldn't dispute it, re the bf lots of American bulls with daughters doing 4.1 plus on bf and 3.2 pr daughter proven like westcoast ardor https://www.stgen.com/sire-directory/dairy-bull-usa.aspx?code=HO840003008328791&language=english&title=s-s-i-shamrock-mystic-et
https://www.stgen.com/sire-directory/dairy-bull-usa.aspx?code=HOCAN000012532099&language=english&title=westcoast-ardor
Using oman/shottle cross sons present day is madness, given the outcrops sires out their, they simply haven't the solids to compete but do give a savage kick re fertility still
The two bulls above have very similar daughter yields but ardor daughters are doing 40 plus kgs of combined f and p in solids per lactation
So using the most used cross by 2 of the greatest bulls in our lifetime is madness and you recommend a bull that is highly inbred with mogul appearing in his ancestry 3 times.
Probably better calving next september great time to sell dairy stock always look well and winter milkers like to have them peaking in december
I was close to putting in gas to heat the water in the dairy a couple of years ago. Glad I didn't now. Thinking of putting in a solar system now. Anyone here with a good solar system?
I have evacuated solar tubes 200 litre above my south facing roof on the parlour. Find it great. It feeds a 150 litre Atlantic tank. Yesterday it was 40 degrees on very hot days it's boils. Fabulous in the summer and in the winter it does ok. In the winter I put it on for a few hours on night rate. Also have 9kw of solar installed since may. The water heater was grant aided
where would one go for advice on a system like that?
i'll pm you the details of the guy i dealt with for them. they were on view at the ploughing and the evacuated tubes guy has normally as stand on the national dairy show. my plan next year is to get an ice builder and upgrade my plate cooler to 2 stag. use nightrate electricity to for the ice builder and top it up with solar during the day. probably get another 11kw of solar. i'm maxed out at 20kw beacuse of my 80 amp fuse from esb.
4400 for an in calf heifer. Things would want to go right with her. Should get three good ones for that. What am I missing
slurry deadline is the 8th of october this year.
Lads running away with the hype
If yer into breeding and look thru pedigrees you’ll get it ……that cow family is one of best in the country .4400 sounds dear but in calf to sexed semen and an abundance of milk ,solids and longevity in back pedigrees
Would it work as well on higher altitude where its more cloudy
How many feet are you above sea level Kev? You’ve mentioned a few times that you’re very high up.
From your previous posts, I’m imagining that your place is like the Swiss Alps complete with those purple Milka cows grazing peacefully 😂
Looks like a genetic issue. So long as the cow can eat, and judging by the shape of her she can, then theres no reason she can't
Not that high, but be a fog or mist down like this morning regularly at winter time
Wind power for you Kev
Kev you’re up so high that you would need bells on the cows to find them on a foggy morning. Did you have problems with enough water this summer?
